News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Centre in Astana supports anticorruption training seminar in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 2 October 2013
Some 25 high- and mid-level experts from the Interior Ministry, National Security Committee, Financial Police, Prosecutor General’s Office and Customs Control Committee of Kazakhstan are participating in a two-day national training seminar on preventing and combating corruption, taking place in Almaty from 3 to 4 October 2013...
OSCE Centre in Astana supports training seminar on combating laundering of drug trafficking proceeds
Publishing date: 1 October 2013
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 1 October 2013 – The OSCE Centre in Astana co-organized with the Ministry of Internal Affairs a four-day training seminar on the legislative framework to combat money laundering derived from drug trafficking which began today in Almaty...
Right to Know Day: OSCE workshop participants call for increased transparency in Kosovo municipalities, abolishment of payment for information
Publishing date: 27 September 2013
PRISHTINË/PRIŠTINA, 27 September 2013 – Public and civil society organizations still face challenges in accessing official documents at the municipal level, concluded participants of an OSCE-supported workshop held today in Prishtinë/Priština on the occasion of the International Right to Know Day...
OSCE welcomes decision to establish new Assembly Commissions in Brcko District on gender, anti-corruption and youth
Publishing date: 25 September 2013
The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina welcomes today’s decision by the Brcko District Assembly to establish new Commissions to address issues of gender equality, anti-corruption and youth...
Extractive industries transparency in Azerbaijan theme of OSCE-supported discussion
Publishing date: 24 September 2013
BAKU, 24 September 2013 – An OSCE-supported meeting focusing on Azerbaijan’s compliance with the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a mechanism for disclosing oil and gas industry earnings to improve the transparency and accountability of public finance management, took place in Baku today...
OSCE Centre supports seminar on protection of intellectual property in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 23 September 2013
ASTANA, 23 September 2013 – Some 40 Customs Control Officers representing all regions of Kazakhstan gathered today at a five-day National Seminar on Combating Counterfeiting and Pirated Products, supported by the OSCE Centre in Astana...
OSCE Mission to Skopje promotes engagement of inter-ethnic youth in municipal decision making in Kumanovo
Publishing date: 20 September 2013
Some ten youngsters of different ethnic backgrounds together with representatives of Kumanovo municipality will discuss mechanisms how youth problems should be better addressed and actions jointly planned at an OSCE-supported seminar taking place in Mavrovo from 20 to 22 September...